For Balance - The List of Attacks by Conservatives is Also Disturbing

Predictably, in the wake of the shooting two days ago, there are some who refuse to take a stand against political violence regardless of which
"side" it comes from. Instead, unable to pass up on an opportunity to engage in political point scoring, incapable of resisting the urge to smear
their political opponents by exploiting the situation, they pluck the low hanging fruit.

I'm not interested in arguing about who's more violent or who's more to blame. The fact is that the entire political spectrum has its extremists
because the propensity for extremism that leads to violence exists independent of the political leanings. We can blame one another, the media,
politicians, whatever — it doesn't matter — the responsible party in every case is the perpetrator of the violence and if it wasn't politics
that they used to justify their actions, it would be something else.

John Russell "Rusty" Houser -- the gunman in Thursday's movie theater shooting -- quietly arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, this month, a
59-year-old man with a string of arrests and a record of "extreme erratic behavior," according to court documents. He'd been evicted from his house
the previous year.

Scarsella and three other men, all wearing face masks, went into an encampment outside a police station in north Minneapolis to livestream
Black Lives Matter protests that had closed down a city block. Scarsella, who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, brought a .45-caliber handgun
and fired at demonstrators in what his attorneys say was self-defense. Prosecutors cited a number of texts Scarsella had sent to friends about
shooting black people and accused the men of being white supremacists and trying to disrupt the protest.

Three militia members plotted to detonate a bomb at a housing complex in western Kansas where Somali immigrants lived and worshiped, federal
investigators said Friday.

The men, who were arrested Friday morning on domestic terrorism charges, scouted out the apartments in Garden City, Kan., stockpiled guns and composed
a manifesto about their anti-Muslim motives, prosecutors said.

“Their rhetoric and their speech have revealed a hatred for Muslims, Somalis and immigrants,” an F.B.I. agent wrote in affidavit related to the
case.

The plotters planned to carry out their attack on Nov. 9, the day after the presidential election, the authorities said.

The gunman who went on a shooting spree Sunday morning in Houston, leaving one dead and six injured, was a supporter of presumptive GOP
presidential nominee Donald Trump. He railed against homosexuals and Jews during the rampage, before he was killed by police.

In these debates, Bissonnette expressed fairly mainstream conservative views. A hunter, he opposed gun control and was pro-Israel, but
otherwise didn't bring up more divisive issues such as Muslims or immigration. But that was a year ago. "I think … something happened. He
radicalized a lot," Prus said. "He seemed just a normal right-wing individual."

A conservative former college student walked into a coffee shop located on the Kentucky campus armed with a machete wounding two women and
asking patrons whether they were Republicans or Democrats, according to witnesses.

White U of Maryland student, who officials say was a member of white supremacist group on Facebook, is charged in fatal stabbing of a black
Bowie State student, leaving others questioning how safe they are.

Phillip Wade, 38, of Antioch was arrested for allegedly stabbing 57-year-old Anthony Johnson of Pittsburg multiple times at a bus stop in
Oakley on Saturday afternoon. According to police, Johnson and Wade were arguing over sports and politics on a Tri Delta Transit bus.

Wade’s Facebook page outlines increasingly hostile statements and threats towards Muslims and African-Americans. On May 19, Wade posted a
threatening racist statement concerning former president Barack Obama along with the gun emoji and the emoji of a man wearing a turban.

Those 10 are all from within the last 24 months. The last three are from the last three months. Let's stop pretending that this is one side's
problem and not the other's. This is everyone's problem.

Lets not forget the Mountains of hateful rhetoric that could be condensed from multible right-wing sites like brightfart or stormer.

But hey of course they're gonna cry victim, it's their go-to "who me?" defense.
Their usual hypocrisy on parade, nothing new, same old BS from people who vote to poison children & leave disabled people to die.

Seems pretty obvious . But , reason just doesn't sit well with some . Especially those who just want to drive Americans apart . It seems as though
there are some foreign actors whose full time job is to spew divisive vitrol on sites such as ats .

It's like when you were a little kid, and you did something wrong, so you immediately tell on someone else(friend or neighbor) about something they
did. It's a knee jerk tactic used by children to "spread around" blame and take focus(hopefully) off themselves.

Everyone's done it at some point, most people just stop using it past 12 or 13 though.

Are you here to promote more violence? Some more of that "conservatives are going to strike back" bulls# that you've been talking for days now and
then disingenously trying to walk back when you called out on it?

What's going to happen is conservatives are going to start striking back.

And then it will be wall-to-wall coverage of how violent conservatives are.

If you kick a dog long enough, even the good ones will start to bite.

Your whole worldview is skewed. It's in no small part for folks who believe bulls# narratives like the one you were just pushing that I wrote this
thread. Now you're to top it off, as if you haven't racked up enough intellectual dishonesty, you disineguously try to miscontrue my posting today.

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